List of speakers of the Australian House of Representatives

Last updated September 23, 2024

Below is a list of speakers of the Australian House of Representatives .

The parties shown are those to which the speakers belonged at the time they held office.

List

	Name	Party	State	Term of office		Comments
1	Sir Frederick Holder	Independent	South Australia	9 May 1901	23 July 1909	Resigned from Free Trade Party upon election as speaker. Died in office.
2	Dr Carty Salmon	Liberal	Victoria	28 July 1909	19 February 1910
3	Charles McDonald	Labor	Queensland	1 July 1910	23 April 1913	First time in role.
4	Sir Elliot Johnson	Liberal	New South Wales	9 July 1913	30 July 1914	First time in role.
(3)	Charles McDonald	Labor	Queensland	8 October 1914	26 March 1917	Second time in role. First Speaker to serve multiple terms.
(4)	Sir Elliot Johnson	Nationalist	New South Wales	14 June 1917	6 November 1922	Second time in role. Most recent Speaker to serve multiple terms.
5	William Watt	Nationalist	Victoria	28 February 1923	3 October 1925	First former government minister to become Speaker.
6	Sir Littleton Groom	Nationalist	Queensland	13 January 1926	16 September 1929	Defeated in his own seat.
7	Norman Makin	Labor	South Australia	20 November 1929	27 November 1931
8	George Mackay	United Australia	Queensland	17 February 1932	7 August 1934
9	Sir George John Bell	United Australia	Tasmania	23 October 1934	27 August 1940
10	Walter Nairn	United Australia	Western Australia	20 November 1940	21 June 1943	Remained as speaker following the mid-term fall of the Fadden minority government in 1941, until defeated in his own seat at the 1943 election.
11	Sol Rosevear	Labor	New South Wales	22 June 1943	31 October 1949
12	Archie Cameron	Liberal	South Australia	22 February 1950	9 August 1956	Died in office.
13	Sir John "Jack" McLeay	Liberal	South Australia	29 August 1956	31 October 1966
14	Sir William Aston	Liberal	New South Wales	21 February 1967	2 November 1972	Defeated in his own seat.
15	Jim Cope	Labor	New South Wales	27 February 1973	27 February 1975	Resigned after the Whitlam government refused to support his naming of the Minister for Labour and Immigration, Clyde Cameron.
16	Gordon Scholes	Labor	Victoria	27 February 1975	11 November 1975
17	Sir Billy Snedden	Liberal	Victoria	17 February 1976	4 February 1983
18	Dr Harry Jenkins Sr.	Labor	Victoria	21 April 1983	20 December 1985	First Speaker whose son was a later Speaker.
19	Joan Child	Labor	Victoria	11 February 1986	28 August 1989	First female Speaker.
20	Leo McLeay	Labor	New South Wales	29 August 1989	8 February 1993
21	Stephen Martin	Labor	New South Wales	4 May 1993	29 January 1996
22	Bob Halverson	Liberal	Victoria	30 April 1996	3 March 1998
23	Ian Sinclair	National	New South Wales	4 March 1998	31 August 1998
24	Neil Andrew	Liberal	South Australia	10 November 1998	31 August 2004
25	David Hawker	Liberal	Victoria	16 November 2004	17 October 2007
26	Harry Jenkins Jr.	Labor	Victoria	12 February 2008	24 November 2011^[1]	First Speaker whose father was a Speaker.
27	Peter Slipper	Independent	Queensland	24 November 2011^[2]	9 October 2012^[2]	Resigned from the Liberal National Party the day after his election as Speaker. Resigned the speakership in the midst of court proceedings. First independent Speaker since Frederick Holder.
28	Anna Burke	Labor	Victoria	9 October 2012^[3]	5 August 2013
29	Bronwyn Bishop	Liberal	New South Wales	12 November 2013	2 August 2015	First non-Labor female Speaker (third overall). Stood down after public outcry about profligate use of taxpayer funded travel benefits.^[4]^[5]^[6]
30	Tony Smith	Liberal	Victoria	10 August 2015	23 November 2021
31	Andrew Wallace	Liberal	Queensland	23 November 2021	26 July 2022
32	Milton Dick	Labor	Queensland	26 July 2022	Incumbent

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References

↑ "Biography for Jenkins, Henry (Harry) Alfred". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
1 2 "Slipper, Peter Neil, (the Hon)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
↑ "Biography for Burke, Anna Elizabeth". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
↑ Crowe, David (2 August 2015). "Bronwyn Bishop resigns, PM launches review of entitlements". The Australian . Retrieved 3 August 2015.
↑ "Bronwyn Bishop resigns as Speaker; Tony Abbott announces review of entitlements system". ABC News . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
↑ "Standing by Bronwyn Bishop: How Tony Abbott's stubbornness could have prompted his second brush with political death". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 August 2015.

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[1] "Biography for Jenkins, Henry (Harry) Alfred". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.

[slipper-2] 1 2 "Slipper, Peter Neil, (the Hon)". Trove. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 September 2013.

[3] "Biography for Burke, Anna Elizabeth". Australian Parliamentary Library. Retrieved 2 September 2013.

[4] Crowe, David (2 August 2015). "Bronwyn Bishop resigns, PM launches review of entitlements". The Australian . Retrieved 3 August 2015.

[5] "Bronwyn Bishop resigns as Speaker; Tony Abbott announces review of entitlements system". ABC News . Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.

[6] "Standing by Bronwyn Bishop: How Tony Abbott's stubbornness could have prompted his second brush with political death". Sydney Morning Herald. 3 August 2015.

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